Police say pair was about to break into Weymouth house

Wednesday

Apr 28, 2010 at 12:01 AMApr 28, 2010 at 12:39 PM

Two Weymouth detectives played a hunch and caught two men as they were allegedly getting ready to break into a South Weymouth house Monday morning, police said. Since March 1, 30 homes in town have been broken into.

More than two dozen homes have been burglarized in Weymouth in the last two months.

So when two detectives saw a pair of men get dropped off in a residential neighborhood in the middle of the day, they figured it might be for nefarious reasons.

They were right, police say.

The two men – Matthew R. Luddy, 27, of East Bridgewater, and Daniel S. Mohan, 34, of Brockton – were arrested and charged with breaking into homes and stealing an assortment of items including jewelry, laptop computers and rare coins.

The detectives were driving on Forest Street at about 11:30 a.m. Monday when they saw a car drop off the pair, Detective Lt. Richard Fuller said. The officers decided to keep an eye on the men and watched as they knocked on the front door of a house in the neighborhood, then walked around to the back.

“The detectives then approached the house and found Mohan and Luddy at the back door preparing to break into the home,” Fuller said.

Both men were wearing latex gloves.

“Luddy had several rare and foreign coins in his pocket, and Mohan had a small jewelry box with a gold necklace in his pocket,” Fuller said.

In the meantime, a patrol officer stopped the car in which the pair had arrived and found jewelry spread over the backseat. A laptop computer was in the trunk, Fuller said.

The driver told police that Luddy and Mohan had broken into a Commercial Street house about an hour earlier, Fuller said. Officers contacted the homeowner, who was away and unaware of the break-in. He identified a necklace that was found in Mohan’s pocket and the coins that were found on Luddy, Fuller said. The laptop and jewelry found in the car also belonged to the homeowner, Fuller said.

Luddy and Mohan are both charged with breaking and entering with intent to commit a felony and larceny of more than $250. The driver of the car had not been charged as of Wednesday.

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